Word: michigan
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...Crist insists that Florida has won out in the larger picture. For one thing, he argues, Florida struck a much needed blow for reform of the nation's antiquated presidential nomination system. (After Florida moved up its primary, Michigan followed suit, holding its election Jan. 15. It received the same DNC punishment.) Even Florida Democrats agree. Says Congressman Robert Wexler, Barack Obama's Florida campaign chairman, "I think Florida has quite effectively started the move toward primary reform," which he and others hope by 2012 will include something like rotating regional primaries...
...What's more, just as Michigan's earlier primary garnered lots of attention for the issue of lost manufacturing jobs, Crist says Florida's concerns are far more front-and-center now than if its primary were held in the spring. "The attention being given this week to Florida and the issues we care about - tax reform, a national catastrophic insurance fund, Everlglades restoration - is huge," he says...
...Which is perhaps why the Obama campaign seems resigned to the DNC decision that Florida's primary results, like Michigan's, will not count. It issued a statement this month assuring supporters that "neither the Florida nor Michigan primaries are playing any role in deciding the Democratic nominee." Obama's Florida campaign chairman, U.S. Representative Robert Wexler says, "I too detest the DNC ruling" and that he believes that "whoever the presumptive nominee is will seat the delegation from Florida." But he insists that those delegates would simply be there to declare their backing of an already anointed nominee...
...race, who knows - if the Democratic primaries still haven't yielded a clear winner for the nomination by the summer, perhaps the party will need to use Florida's delegates (and Michigan's) to break the deadlock. It is, after all, the kind of extra-innings electoral role Florida has played before...
...circuit board innovations, and fiber optic technology, and health care policy - rather than gay marriage or abortion. He will speak about numbers and statistics in a way that connects with an audience, not because he is interesting, but because no one can doubt that he knows his stuff. In Michigan, it was a convincing act that brought him victory, along with his family name and his pandering promise to restore the dying auto industry...